Hello! My name is Starsha. I'm 33, a wife, a mother, and a graduate student in counseling psychology.
I believe that fat people are more than just the fat they carry. They are more than the stereotyped image of the fat person who is lazy and eats all day. They have lives and families. Yet they seem to be open targets for public shame and humiliation. It seems that so many people are all too willing to poke fun at someone who is fat because of some preconceived notion that all fat people choose to be that way. Just because fat is so obvious. It cannot be hidden. It can't be tucked away within ourselves or stuffed in a box and stored under the bed. It can never be a secret.
I'm pro-fat acceptance because I am pro-human rights. Fat people have a right to feel comfortable in their own skin. They have a right to leave their houses without shame or fear of being mocked. Other people do not have to like it, but they certainly do not have a right to make someone feel less than human because of it.
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I hate it when I lose my nose stud and I have no idea where or when. On top of that, I hate it when I don’t have any nose stud left and I have to force a ring in it that is way bigger and the hole has shrunk.
My nose
My nose
My nose is on fi-ya!
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"I was raped by four men in one evening. I got drunk and tried to say no. What did my predators do? They told me to drink more. They shoved a bottle in my face and told me to keep drinking. Drink till I was drunk enough to fuck them. I blacked out. They urinated on me. They assaulted me. They shoved foreign objects in my body, anally and vaginally. They took videos. I was just 16 years old. The video was sent around my entire school, and I was bullied every single day of my senior year of high school. I lost all of my friends. I was physically and verbally abused by peers and people I once called friends. Someone tried to set me on fire in the hallway during passing period. Nobody sympathized with me. Nobody cared about the fact that because of these events, I was trying to kill myself every single day. I was cutting myself, making myself puke, showering upwards of fifteen times a day because I felt filthy. I was scratching and peeling the skin off of my body because I was dirty. I looked at myself like I deserved what I got. The world saw me as dirty, so I began to see myself that way, too. My rapists were praised by my peers for their deed. I never had a voice. When I first learned about the Steubenville incident going to trial, I was overjoyed. Because Jane Doe’s story was my story, and if anyone deserved justice, it was her. She would get the justice I never got. She would change the tide of the rape culture movement. Despite the horrific events that occurred, I knew that the justice served would help ease her pain. But she didn’t get justice, and now she has to witness this news coverage, favoring and sympathizing with her attackers. Pain is not an accurate word to describe what she is feeling right now. Pain is the simplest term you could use. As a rape victim and an aspiring journalist, I am disgusted with the way this case was reported on. Jane Doe’s rapists deserve their suffering in prison. They deserve more. They do not deserve to be sympathized with. They made their stupid decision, and they deserve whatever consequences come their way. If you don’t want to be labeled as a rapist, don’t fucking rape."
- Anonymous comment left on the CNN petition demanding they apologize for sympathizing with the Steubenville rapists (via theworldmaybebroken)
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Just The Really Stupid Parts: sewcialcaterpillar: “The third HAES tenet is “Enjoy your food.” The...
“The third HAES tenet is “Enjoy your food.” The problem here is that for many people, this approach would eliminate fresh vegetables (or fruits or whole grains). HAES says to avoid eating while driving, walking or watching TV, which is good, but “Enjoy your food”…
The point is that people are out of touch with their bodies. We can learn to listen to them. We’ve been taught that our bodies are dumb, that we can’t function without doctors, that our bodies can’t perform natural biological functions without medical interventions, and that we can’t be trusted with our own bodies.
HAES helps people get back in touch with themselves, it doesn’t assume they already know how. It is a reeducation of sorts.
Another important thing to consider is the detrimental effects that come with placing moral value in food. It creates guilt and shame around food choices which actually exacerbates disordered eating patterns.
Source: stop-titp